gh. I was expecting he'd go
into some details about the science of math notations, or, as he put
it aptly: “linguistics of math notations”. However, he didn't touch
the subject, except saying that it haven't been studied.
Xah
On Aug 15, 10:54 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Xah's E
On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Xah Lee]
>
> > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this
> > is probably more than 2 months full-time work. See:
>
> > ⢠Python Documentation Problems
> > http://xahlee.org/p
info format for Xah Lee writes:
> in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup
> the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility
> when coding in perl, python, php?
On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote:
> Yes, try C-h S (or similarly S):
2009-08-17
On Aug 16, 10:32 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Personally, particular interesting info i've learned is that, for all
> my trouble in the past decade expressing problems of traditional math
> notation, i learned from his article this single-phrase summary:
> “traditional math
y in commericial
software about 10 years ago.
Xah
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☄
On Aug 17, 4:32 am, "Colin S. Miller" wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > btw, is there still info format for python doc?
>
> > i feel kinda sad that emacs info format has pretty much been
> > d
he date of this speech also explains parts of the writings about some
mysterious “fundamental science work”, which now we know is his
controversial book A New Kind Of Science (2002).
Xah
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Xah Lee wrote:
Personally, particular interesting info i
• Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “Form” in Formalism
http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/index.html
plain text version follows. (lacks links)
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Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “Form” in Formalism
Xah Lee, 2009-08-31
This page is a collection
tax
examples in different languages, rendered output in different tools,
notation comparison from different schools, philosophies in formalism
or logicism or computer proofing systems from different
mathematicians, pertinent quotations and excerpts from various
literatures, and more academic refe
cleaned up the previous post.
• 〈HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/html6.html
plain text version follows
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HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified
Xah Lee, 2010-09-21
Tired of the standard bodies telling us what to do and change
t to
> scheme. Anyone who wants to think about it has my blessing!
just curious, i can't believe if there's not already something similar
in scheme lisp.
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ution can be much improved... perhaps
using some lib but that seems to show scheme is pretty weak if the lib
is non-standard.
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me about this, there's a my blog link at
the bottom of the page where you can leave a comment. Feel free to use
that.
i'll go over the solutions and post if i have anything interesting to
say. ☺ Possbly will select some to show on my site with credit of
course.
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On Sep 26, 7:56 am, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> Jürgen Exner writes:
> > Alexander Burger wrote:
> >>In PicoLisp:
>
> > What the f does PicoLisp have to with Perl?
>
> It's Xah. He cross-posts in an attempt to start a language feud.
>
> Please don
n Perl and Python〉
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/quoting_strings.html
• 〈Strings in PHP〉
http://xahlee.org/php/quoting_strings.html
• 〈HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/html6.html
• 〈Matching Brackets in Unicode〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_matching_brackets.html
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ion” is good, because it adds another idiosyncratic syntax
to the lang, but such is with the tradition of imperative langs. The
ad hoc syntax aids in reading code by various syntactical forms and
hint words such as “[... for ... in ...]”.
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On Sep 27, 12:11 pm, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 27 set, 16:06, Xah Lee wrote:> 2010-09-27
>
> > > For instance, this is far more convenient:
> > > [x+1 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x%2==0]
> > > than this:
> > > map(lambda x:x+1,filter(lambda x:x%2==0,
27;t know about the crossposting.
>
> >> Oh, he does. It has been Xah's game for years.
>
> > But did "livibetter" know about it? I wasn't defending Xah, who is indeed
> > at the very least clueless and disruptive.
>
> Heh, he's not cluel
xah wrote:
> in anycase, how's “do” not imperative?
On Sep 28, 6:27 am, namekuseijin wrote:
> > how's “do” a “named let”? can you show example or reference of that
> > proposal? (is it worthwhile?)
>
> I'll post it again in the hope you'll read t
2010-09-28
On Sep 28, 12:07 pm, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 28 set, 14:56, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > ultimately, all lang gets transformed at the compiler level to become
> > machine instructions, which is imperative programing in the ultimate
> > sense.
>
> > You
On Sep 29, 11:02 am, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 28 set, 19:38, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > • “list comprehension” is a very bad jargon; thus harmful to
> > functional programing or programing in general. Being a bad jargon, it
> > encourage mis-communication, mis-understanding.
here's my experiences dealing with unicode in various langs.
Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp
Xah Lee, 2010-10-07
I looked at Ruby 2 years ago. One problem i found is that it does not
support Unicode well. I just checked today, it still doesn't. Just do
a web search o
2010-10-09
On Oct 9, 3:45 pm, Sean McAfee wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
> > Perl's exceedingly lousy unicode support hack is well known. In fact
> > it is the primary reason i “switched” to python for my scripting needs
> > in 2005. (See: Unicode in Perl and Python)
>
On Sep 25, 9:05 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
>
> I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
> a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
> sharing
> the same label. So if I have the list
>
e.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/naming_functions.html
where i gave some examples of the naming.
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On Oct 20, 4:52 am, Marc Mientki wrote:
> Am 20.10.2010 13:14, schrieb Xah Lee:
>
> > See also:
>
> > • 〈The Importance of Terminology's Quality In Computer Languages〉
> >http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/naming_functions.html
>
> > where i gave some
pure functional lang (e.g. haskell), i think lc is pretty bad.
here's the plain text version of my essay
What's List Comprehension and Why is it Harmful?
Xah Lee, 2010-10-14
This page explains what is List Comprehension, with examples from
several lang
://xahlee.org/comp/land_of_lisp.html
Conrad is certainly a fervent lisp lover. ( as is Peter Seibel
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) Conrad is also a comics artist. The
landoflisp is going all over on twitter yesterday and apparantly many
already ordered it. Hope he does very well.
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n JVM? guess they are UNREAL. lol
btw, who cross posted this thread to python? i call troll!
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On Oct 27, 5:46 pm, rantingrick wrote:
> On Oct 26, 4:31 am, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > recently wrote a article based on a debate here. (can't find the
> > original thread on Google at the moment)
>
> Hey all you numbskulls who are contributing the annoying off-topic
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